Course Details
Climatology
Academic Year 2024/25
BS051 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Atmosphere of the Earth: composition, layers, attributes
2. Atmospheric pressure: units, normal pressure, attributes, measurement
3. Radiation: energy of radiation, Sun, radiation and absorption in atmosphere, Earth radiation, measurement
4. Temperature of the soil, water and the air: units, attributes, measurement
5. Humidity of the air: determination, units, distribution in the atmosphere
6. Evaporation and transpiration: definitions, evaporation from the soil, water and plants, measurement and calculation, values
7. Condensation of water vapor: condensation nucleus,level, condensation on soil surface, in low layers of the atmosphere
8. Precipitations: origin and classification, intensity, measurement and evaluation
9. Cloudiness: clouds, water volume, classification
10. Atmospheric air flow: origin, classification, circulation, measurement and evaluation
11. Basic pressure formations, weather
12. Climate of the Earth, European climate, climate of CZ
13. Climate change, global warming
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. History of Meteorological Station of Faculty of Civil Engineering, BUT. Meteorological devices. Presentation topics.
2. Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and its measuring stations.
Atmosphere of the Earth: layers - graph. Videodocument: Atmosphere of the Earth. Presentation of selected topics.
3. Composition of the atmosphere of the Earth. Air pollution. presentations of selected topics.
4. Measurement and evaluation of atmospheric pressure. Tasks, calculations. Climate Atlas of the CR.
5. Soil, water and air temperature, thermometers types, measurements evaluations (calculations, graphs).
6. Air humidity: measurement and evaluation (graphs).
7. Evaporation and transpiration: measurement and calculation methods. Presentation of selected topics.
8. Precipitations: measurement and evaluation. Snow. Presentation of selected topics..
9. Classification of clouds - tests on line. Atlas of clouds. Presentation of selected topics.
10. Air - evaluation of measured data. Measuring devices.
11. Meteorological observations.
12. Climadiagram. Climate change - videodocument.
13. Evaluation of winter seasons. Weather proverbs.